AM Show HR 1 - Oh, Happy Day, It's Fridee

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I was pulled over last night andthe officer didn't know me. He asked
if I had a police record,and I said no, but I have
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to say it and it's always boring. CG. Welcome to the program.
I guess i'd drive maybe five sixdays a week, just part time.

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I'm going to say I'm just apart time driver. Let's see if you
can tell me a three phrases orword pronunciations of JT that I liked the
most or something like that, likeat like that is correctly locket just to
make a little extra income, doit again remote just something like that,
just to make a little extra back. I want to do a regular feature

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with JT. Maurice, you're onthe Michael Merricks Show. Oh yes,
yes, So I want to followup that we could express benevolence to each
other after the conflict that Emily Bulland I had on Easter Sunday last year.
Maurice, why are you calling underyour real name? You used to

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always make up a fake name.No, it wasn't a fake is that
I had? Like, Okay,I would like to listen to your show.
I also like to listen to MarkLevin's show. He likes that people
not give a very full name thatthey give like just their like part of
their name, like like you know, I could say Jim, James or
Maurice, but then he wanted tolike if people would give a second part
of their name, then he wouldlike end the call because he'd say like

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like I'm not sure if you're reallythat person or whatever like that. And
so that's why when I did thatbig call to you August sixth, twenty
twenty one, when I mentioned Mauriceafter having earlier used either Jim or James,
then I said ooops, because Iwas concerned, you know, like
under the like Mark Levin kind oflike moo of how to do the radio
show. Then that would seem tomean that they that a call would have

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to end because of the because ofrevealing more of the name than just the
basic part of the name. ButI've been using my real name and just
you know, sometimes it could beMaurice, sometimes James, sometimes Jim.
And then you told me on onepartular show, you told me that I
should use that should identify fully identifymyself because of the past history. Well,

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you have a history of calling intothe show, and you're somewhere on
the spectrum between just completely crazy andharmless autistic and I don't know where.
And I will admit as a sortof amateur hannibal actor. I enjoy hold
on. So there's there's a there'sa rain Man aspect to it that I

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enjoy. But there's also I canI sense kind of a goodness to you
that that you want to also letseep out. And so I'm not gonna
lie. I find you a fascinatingstudy. So I enjoy when you call
it's been a long Time's been toolong? Yes, Actually I go into
that in the book. There's abook I published, watch of my company,

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published middle of last year title Sciencereligion, politics, and cards.
And in that book I go intoa great deal of depth about some of
my personal history and some of thepeople adjacent to me. And then and
also I go at a bunch ofthis stuff, so a bunch of stuff
with the history of world, butit goes into part of things. So
I've not been diagnosed with any ofthose autistic kind of things long ago.

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There are several times people who tryto give me, Yeah, there are
certal times skip try to give mesome esoteric kinds of diagnoses, but I
believe that they're all invalid because theyignored that kind of thing of when I
was molested as a child. They'dnever dug that out for me. And
then I once I was able torecognize that they still hadn't dug it out
of me, and I was ableto step away from all of that.
I'm not on any prescripture medications whatsoever. I haven't been on any of them

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since May twenty eighth, twenty twentyone. And other than of course,
when I had gotten a bar fightand some other stuff. Then well,
at an other time, a guyI got robbed at gunpoint, A little
bit of medication like for like lacerationson the scalp and stuff like that because
but but you know, I haven'tbeen on any consistent medications in a long
time. But getting past that thingabout a child molestation and other stuff,

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then I've that's been very helpful,being back to its having the mind work
very well. But I know that, yes, there is some kind of
an element of that. A lotof the weird stuff I've experienced simes,
I've dealt with them, not themost effective way, but I have been
able to get much better. Idon't think that there really should be any
of these specific diagnoses like to latchon to me permanently. How did you

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come to the point that you did? You self diagnose that your molestation as
a young child was in some wayaffecting you in a long run to some
degree as that but also does somedegree that I got involved with quite a
variety of people who kind of emphasizethat kind of direction of things that interpreted

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that you get past enough of thepast traumas and you're better. But actually
before I never received any of thediagnoses from the doctors. I had a
conversation with one of my fraternity brotherswhere I self diagnose myself as having mental
illness before ever any psychiatrist had evertry to do that. And then later
on that was that guy told meat that time that he didn't think that

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I had any of that kind ofthing. He tried to compare what he
knew of dealing with me with whathe knew of other stuff, and he
didn't think that I had any ofthat. But I thought that I did,
and then later than the doctors thoughtI did. But then that's the
kind I think the molestation. Ididn't even talk to any other human being
about it until I was about thirtyyears old three zero thirty years old,
and the molestation, the best Ican tell from my memory, happened when
I was about five and a halfyears old. Because it is this kind

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of thing where it got bottled up, I'll usually not even be consciously aware
of it. But finally I gotto talk with a couple of people when
I was thirty years old, andthen I got much older than telling more
people about it. And then that'sone of the things I go into a
bit of depth in that book about. Briefly, it's unclear to me whether

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this book that you talk about isis pinned under your name, or it's
a collaboration or it's part of acompany. Can you explain that. Well,
back when I resigned from the lastaccounting job that I did, and
I also communicated to a Texas StateBoard of Public Accountancy in order to voluntarily

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surrender the CBA license back at thattime. There then I created a CEA
Corporation, and then within a fewdays then it got to be official the
Sea Corporation Synapsid Revelations Press Corporation.And then for a while I had it
there where I wasn't sure if Iwould publish any books under it with that

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there but then but then later onit came to be that the middle of
last year, in fact, afterI felt very slighted by the way that
Emily Bull had interacted with me onthe email, I decided to go ahead
and activate using that corporation in orderto make a book that would in part

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I go through a bunch of thehistory of the world, the history of
the universe, science, religion,politics, a bunch of that kind of
stuff, and also in a partof my personal history. And therefore I
went ahead and I did that,and so yes, it's under my own
name. Maurice James Blair, myown legal name as the author. It

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was published in hardcover July twentieth lastyear, is published in paperback July twenty
third, last year, and it'spublished by Synapsid Revelations Press Corporation, which
is a Texas Sea corporation. Soare you gainfully employed now, Maurice,
Yes? So for one thing,then I have that Sea corporation for which

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I am the CEO and founder.But then also I have that thing where
it self published a few novels outthere to be for sale with the general
public. And so I'm gainfully employedwith two jobs at a time when some
of that stuff had happened last year, from portions of April through July.

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At that time I had a thirdjob, the third job having been working
for Goodwill Houston at a very basiclevel. But then later on I decided
that as a risk management decision,on August twenty first, twenty twenty three,
to give two weeks notice to GoodwillHouston, and I downsized from three
jobs, which added up to sometimesabout approximately full time work or a little

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bit more, or once in awhile significantly more, down to two jobs,
which are in general much less thanfull time work to then sort of
drift off into semi retirement at oneage oh forty seven years old. And

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with whom are you living then?So I have a residence that my mother
and I co own. Oh,I remember when we bought that, when
we bought the house, you know, then Capital one, when we were
doing wire transfers. Then, soI was going to end up paying maybe
about what maybe like a two hundredand sixty thousand dollars through wire transfers,

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and she was going to pay maybesomething like thirty five thousand or twenty five
thousand whatever by wire transfers. Butthen you know the wire transferring, I
think Capital One, the code didn'tcome through on the two step authentication for
the wiring, and so then Iended up being that she only paid three
thousand, two hundred on the houseof buying it without a mortgage, and

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I ended up paying the rest ofthe like two hundred and ninety something thousand
dollars by wire transfers. So thenwith all of that happening, and also
because of the idea of destroying abunch of like the narrative of I tell
yes, we're going to take yourteam obeyed Michael Barry, Joe. Hell
yeah, we're talking to Marie who'scalled in and some of you will no

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doubt remember his calls in the past. So you seem to be addressing a
criticism of yours and I don't knowif it's in your own mind or someone
else said it to you. Ithink to use your phrase being a mama's
boy because you own a home withyour mother. Has someone said that to
you or do you suspect they saythat behind your back? Well, let

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me be clear on this here.So this is the kind of thing where
I figured out some point in mylife. I think maybe when I was
like in my early twenties or so, maybe earlier than that. There,
you know, there's a kind ofa cultural thing about the idea that you're
if you're an adult man in Americaand you're over some level of age,

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then to be in the same residenceas your mother general winds up being frowned
upon, and that they're you know, there there's some significant reasons for it.
But then it reminds me of there'san SNL sketch from a very long
time ago that i'd seen, Ithink in the nineteen nineties where they have

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several of these guys who live ina residence with their mothers, each each
one with his mother, and thenthey they're in like some kind of a
group discussion setting, and it turnsout most of them there's something about them
with their entire background that is weakas far as how to deal interpersonally with
other people and weak as far asrunning life in general. But then there's

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one of them, all of asudden, I think, portrayed by Danny
DeVito if I remember either Danny DeVitoor someone kind of similarly comedic, and
that particular one, it turned outis that he has his act for the
most part together. He's for themost part reasonably psychologically strong, reasonably capable
of interpersonal interactions and of being ableto stand up for himself. But happens

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to be that the financial situation,the practical situation, the way it fits
into his life, that then havinga residence that he shares with his mother,
that it's what fits his situation,rather than it being something about like
pathetic kind of a loser kind ofa situation. So it's more of the

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thing that it's practical and it fitsthe situation correctly. And for me,
I believe that this is where Ihave it very well put together, that
this situation makes sense. Also,I'm somewhat a caretaker for her because like
when my father passed on, heended up with that he was taking care

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of all the finances that my motherit would be doing. And also he's
can't take care of many of myfinances asn't like logging into the computer,
checking on the accounts, arranging thatthe credit cards get paid from the banks
and stuff like that, and reconcilingrecords and stuff like that. But then
he passed on incapacitated. Then monthslater he passed on. I went to
part of that in a previous phonecall I believe was October eleventh, twenty

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twenty two, but then when hepassed on, so that I had to
then take on all of that burdenbecause she hardly ever uses a computer.
She has arthritis. Also, she'snot really been met used to computers,
not really uses them a whole lotin her entire life, and not really

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used to following up a financial record. So be part way hairtaker for her,
in addition to the other stuff thatI've done since my father got incapacitated
and then later passed on. Sothen that's one of the things. So
there is part of a caretaker elementon that, though it's not at like
like level that there's anywhere near likea skilled nursing facility or anything like that.

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She's still able to walk, she'sable to talk, She's able to
do a lot of the normal activitiesof life. But for some of these
things like following up on financial recordsand following up on a lot of business,
that that a lot of that burdenis placed on me, kind of
like it used to be placed onmy father. And what is that burden?

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Uh? Because then you know,log into accounts, check the sea,
does do things look like they're right? Sometimes the recond style some of
the stuff. If if if somekind of problem happens, then if she
could be on the phone and mentionthem that she gives permission for her son
to talk on her behalf to helpstraighten out the situation with customer service or

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whoever else, And and and youknow that she needs to go to uh
some government place to talk with themabout straening something out. Then for me
to accompany her the vast majority casesto help straighten it out. A whole
lot of those kinds of things therethat that wind up helping with also some

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more routine things that there may benot quite not quite as serious, but
kind of like that with between arthritisand other factors that sunds like closing certain
of the windows and opening certain ofthe windows of the house sometimes an extra
burden for her, and so someof those opening and closing them. And

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then then if she's waiting for mealsand wheels to arrive on many of these
days, then for me to beable to help to observe that that she
hopefully doesn't miss it when they likeif they don't knock that loudly or something,
maybe she's in the middle of watchingTV, then maybe I can be
able to notice that that and thenand then if I notice that, then

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then I could help to make sureshe doesn't miss meals and wheels on that
day. Stuff like that. Whatdo they bring in those like what would
be a meal? Are they good? Oh? Yeah, yeah, they're
good. They Actually they changed abit when they had the COVID and then
they changed back to normal, buttemporarily they did a very different way.
But basically right now what they whatthey do, which is similar to what

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they did back before COVID is itoften on a weekday, they will bring
a small tree that has an entreeand has two sides. And then they
will also bring like a slice ofbread, one fruit item, cardon of
milk, typically long lines of thatkind of a thing there, and maybe
a little like a cookie or ora set of four like generic similar to

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Oreo type of items. And thenyeah, that's a big part of another
part. They sided to bring abox with multiple frozen meals in it,
together with a bunch of other items. And so yeah, they they they
bring some very helpful kind of stuffand she shares some of it with me.

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It's a it's a very fantastic program. In fact, it's one of
the ones I'm thinking about a possibilityof if I do another third job.
You know, it's just I orientedat this point in life. It's something
that might be not too stressful asone of the possibilities. That's one of
the ones I'm thinking about sometimes though, you know, you know, there's
advantages and drawbacks to almost any possibledraw you today to the colonial house apartments

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and received free e've been more recorded. Our guest is Maurice. I mean
he's not with our guest not interviewed. He called in, and we're going
to keep talking to him because Marie'sI don't want to overdiagnose you. And
this isn't really a diagnosis, it'sit's an observation and I don't know what

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to do with it, but I'mcurious if it's something you've noticed, and
if so, your thoughts on it. You abruptly end when you're telling a
story or giving an answer, youabruptly end, and it's almost startling.
It's like you slam on the brakes. Is that intentional or do you even

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notice that you do it? Well, there is a combination of factors.
One of them was that the secondtime I called into your show, I
se because remember the first time Icalled in your show was about three fourths
of the way into September twenty nineteen, and it was only lightning round where
you had a thing about you don'tremember the day, well, it was
probably it was either as on orabout September twenty third, twenty nineteen.

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You got a lightning round about greatestTom Petty songs and like take one off,
put one on, and I saidto remove from you know, you
had Ramone's suggestion or either ramone orsomeone similar had don'is suggestion? What was
suggestion? Let's see here, Ithink the best of my memory. Let's
see here, refugee free falling.Let me see here was a third one.

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I think maybe don't come around hereno more. Yes, he had
three, three different songs, andthen the I said to take off free
falling and to and I said toput on last Dance with Mary Jane.
Technically I didn't quite get the titleexactly right, because because you know,
the titles actually Mary Jane's Last Dance, my last Dance with Mary Jane.
So then, so that was thefirst time I called into your show.

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Then the second time, of course, was when on August sixth, twenty
twenty one. We spoke for avery very long time. But I noticed,
you know, because then I followedup after the phone call, but
going on to Facebook and following upon comments that other people had made about
that, and then you know,I just went and responded, you know,
showing my full legal name. Youknow, I did not really have

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much to hide on this, soI went ahead and I responded, and
I noticed that one of the thingsthat they mentioned, I don't remember which
listener had mentioned it what his namewas, but one of the listeners had
critsized, actually multiple listeners had criticizedme for being way too long winded in
my answers. They criticized the severaldifferent ways about the idea of me being

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way too long winded with my answers. So there was a kind of achme
that bother bothers. It wasn't somuch that bothered me as as it was
you know, I recognize, youknow, people have different ideas about conversational
styles and situation by situation basis howpeople should manage them. And so then
later on, when I had sometime to reflect on some different things and

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a bunch of changes happened in mylife. When I called in on October
eleventh, twenty twenty two, thenI had changed that style of where I
have this kind of abrupt ending.I think in fact, one time there,
I ended up being that you're veryslow to speak, and I wasn't
speaking. I ended on my speaking, and so there was a little bit
of an awkward silence and I askedif you were still there, and you

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confirm that you're still there. Butthe kind of thing where I remembered that
you know, the one the prettyliterally sticks with me is is that one
guy said something about that he wasgiving five dollars answers to ten cent questions
and stuff like that. So I, yes, I was trying not to
be way too long winded. Andit looks like maybe it's one of thinks
like a penulum, you know,like swinging too far one side to the

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other to where trying to overcompensate thatthat maybe that's part of what led to
this abruptness that you pointed out.So you think that in your you think
that at some point in the middleof what are admittedly long winded answers,
that you realize that and so youyou you pull on the reins and you

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just stop that. Yeah, that'skind of what it is with that.
Actually, that reminds me. Thatreminds me of when I was in drive.
The first time I was doing driver'sschool, I was about like what
fifteen years old something like that.In Texas, you know, you have
the special program that so with thedriving school, I know, I had
many years of watching autoy at timeslike as signs. I'd watched a lot

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of motor auto racing signs a littlebit of it, but One of the
things I had is the idea thatif you wait a bit later to break,
then you achieve a faster lab time, you see. So I very
much ingrained into me. So thenwhen I was doing the driver's training,
I started doing that kind of wayright off the bat, and instructor,
as you can imagine, was somewhatmortified by that, with but like you

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need to hit the brake sooner toeven your laugh stops. You know.
I'll tell you an interesting story,Mari's I am fascinated by our brains.
And I guess I guess I conveyedthis in some way because my oldest son,

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Michael t who's a senior in highschool about to graduate eighteen, he
also for years has been fascinated withthe brain. And he used to ask
this question. He would say,when we have a thought, why did
we have the thought? Did Ichoose that thought or did my brain choose

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that thought? And he would goreally deep into this existential question that became
you know, turtles all the waydown, and it became it was it
became something that we would talk aboutwhile we were driving, and he would
always have these these you know,very very deep questions that I'd never thought
about, and it would trouble him, and so I would try to answer

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it as best I could, andit it interested me. And mental I
don't want to just say mental healthbecause that's such a judgmental thing. How
our brains work, you know.I was talking on the show one day
about how white people are very youknow, caught up in uh. You
know, things have to be right. So if I state something intentionally that

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is wrong, an actor in amovie will be overwhelmed with people who not
only say you got that wrong.It wasn't Dan Aykroyd, it was Bill
Murray. They will not only sayyou got it, they're mad at you
because you created disorder and they needorder. So I will when you and
I are through talking today, Iwill get I don't know, fifty emails

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about our conversation, and those emailswill be one of two things. One
of them will be Michael, heneeds help. You need to get him
help. I have experience in thisfield. I had a brother, I
had a sister. He needs help. You need to get him help.
And the overcaring person will be oneand the other one will be get that
guy off. Why is he onthere? This is ridiculous. Why do

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you do this? And I'll tellyou. I'll tell you what's going on
with that. People don't know howto deal with someone being different than them.
And can we agree you're different thanmost people. Yes, we'll agree.
So people don't know how to dealwith someone who is different. And
as I've said, you're somewhere onthe spectrum. And I find it interesting

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because it's interesting to learn more aboutwho you are, in the same way
that I got a buddy that's athat's a pilot in the ship channel and
I'm interested in his job, ora cop or you know, anybody else.
And it makes people uncomfortable because theydon't know where to fit you,
Maurice. They don't know where toput you in your in their brain.
Are you a bad guy? Areyou a good guy? Are you flowers

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for Algernon? Or are you ofmice and men? Are you one flew
over the Cucko's nest? Or areyou Charlie Manson? So they don't know
where to put you, and thatmakes them uncomfortable because now there's something that
doesn't fit in its cubby hole andit's just hanging out there, and that
makes people uncomfortable, and so theylash out as to why have you kept

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this? All they had to dowas turn the dial, and they would
turn the dial if I was sayingthings that with which they disagreed. But
a conversation with you makes people veryuncomfortable noise, and I'll bet you experienced
that wherever were go